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Hello everyone I submitted a revised version of the poem about the Bay Area mutuals (@sorrellegiance + @pindergarten) that I wrote for Sorrel's birthday for a poetry contest -- and did NOT place, which is fine bc I do not respect to literary establishment or to be frank other professional poets. But since I did not place, I will not be doxxing myself if I share the revised version on Tumblr -- I made a little video for it bc it's become one of my favorite poems I've ever written :)

[video description: two videos sliced together of the view out of the window of a moving BART train as it comes into the Coliseum BART station. The Oakland Coliseum is prominent in the background.]

Poem with stanza breaks intact under the cut:

I Think Of You On BART Rides Past The Oakland Coliseum

Cargo ships cut through the water of the bay,

carrying a world's worth of containers filled 

with things we like and want and use

and try not to take for granted

but never realize how much we need

until we see the cranes at the port.

[stanza break]

You and I are, ourselves, containers of desires,

and possibilities, and anxieties, and futures,

as we ride the ferry across the bay.

[stanza break]

But the waves in the wake of this ferry,

and the spray that hits the deck,

and the sea birds that coast behind,

and the water that carries us

to and from, coming and going,

all of it, all of it, all of it with us,

is a reminder that without the bay,

without this body of water,

we'd never feel at home.

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if 3000+ devices exploded simultaneously and thousands got injured, 37+ ppl died in usa or london or france anywhere in the imperial core this website would be talking about it nonstop. my coworkers' relatives are lebanese and he hasn't been able to contact them because everyone's nervous of using anything with a lithium battery. the kids from diaspora are teaching their parents how to turn off find my phone and airdrop and other geolocating options. it's absurd to me people are carrying on like its normal, or just don't care cause c'mon ppl blow up in the middle east all the time, right?

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EXACTLY!

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↳ SEATTLE KRAKEN MEDIA DAY PHOTOSHOOT | 9.19.24

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will the girl in the red erik karlsson shirsey please turn around to look at my sharks sweatshirt :((

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Okay Wait I need to test something

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inspired by @simmyfrobby's nhl periodic table poems and mary soon lee's elemental haiku when I saw Tina Thompson wore 32, I knew this had to go together

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English added by me :)

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image one / image two (karlsson, boyle, burns) / image three (hughes, burns, karlsson, keith, chara, & text) / image four (text)

ruthenium, from elemental haiku by mary soon lee

for nhl periodic table poems as organized by @simmyfrobby

other ruthenium isotopes: wedgewood, malkin

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Stickers seen around NYC in the days after cops opened fire in the NYC subway, shooting a fellow officer, two bystanders, and an alleged "fair evader" they were attempting to apprehend.

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practiced mac & cheese for the potluck and hot damn i'm good

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got a pudding cup from the engineering student center and opened the spoon drawer to find One straw.

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the nypd doing a mass shooting over a $2.90 fare evasion truly is the inevitable endpoint of the police as an institution and also just the encapsulation of how everything we're fighting is all the same fucking thing at its core. nypd kkk idf you're all the same.

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'Mid' autumn festival? I find it quite based actually.

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very quietly but continuously farting through lecture 😭😭😭